Jake - First sorry to hear about the data loss, but one thing you should realize. The issue here isn't as much MacFUSE as it is the NTFS driver written on top of MacFUSE. I would suggest you also follow up with what ever NTFS driver you were using on top of it.
TVL On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jake <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me start out by saying I support MacFUSE in their efforts of > bringing NTFS to the MacOSX, and am grateful to have their software to > help me write NTFS onto my SeaGate 500GB Portable NTFS. > Now, with that said and done, I would like to issue a warning to all > users of the software. > I have used MacFUSE for a great three months now on my personal iMac > at school, and installed it on all of the other iMacs in our facility. > There is no extra data or applications on our iMacs; the only software > other than software updates directly from Apple, and MacFUSE are the > only things we have downloaded from the internet. Now, all the iMacs > have gone through the correct install and reboot process, and for > about a month we had not seen any problems. > I am an artist. I work a lot in Photoshop. > About two weeks ago, I was doing some transfers to display my > portfolio, saving a large .PSD (around 400MB-500MB) to my external > drive, and upon finishing the save, I correctly ejected the drive (CMD > +Click>Eject). After ejecting the drive successfully, I plugged in the > USB to my native Windows laptop, running Windows Vista Ultimate x64/ > x86. Its important to note here that I have used Mac and Windows with > no difficulty for two months, and it is not the Windows fault. Once > the 'Autoplay' menu arose, obviously showing that it recognized the > drive, I clicked on "View Files/Folders." To my surprise, two folders > that I hadn't touched or saved anything to on the Mac were missing. > Both folders, unfortunately, contained all the work I had done from my > Summer and Spring Breaks, 3 months of works, and over 20GB of pictures > and files. And yes, the folders were in fact on the Mac's display when > I was saving the PSDs. On Windows, I looked for them as if they were > hidden, and yes, I also searched for hidden files on the iMac. > Unfortunately, they had dropped off the face of my eHDD. I was > devastated. Luckily, I didn't temper with the drive any longer, and I > was able to have someone take an entire week for me and RESTORE (this > required professional software) 80-90% of the lost pictures and files. > Nonetheless, I still lost about 2GB of data, files most of which were > very important. > I have read: "The driver currently is in BETA status, which means that > no data corruption or loss has been reported during ordinary driver > use, nor found in our extensive quality testing before release of the > latest version, however we are aware of certain usability issues and > driver limitations which are all documented and planned to be resolved > in the future. It may be revealing about the high reliability of the > NTFS-3G driver that an increasing number of users find hidden hardware > faults, and several Microsoft released NTFS bugs during NTFS-3G > testing and usage." > But this needs to be stated, as it has happened to me. Random files > and directories can be lost using MacFUSE, even carefully, and even if > they weren't even touched on the device before eject. > > I warn that, upon using MacFUSE, that you may loose important data if > you: > A. Use MacFUSE to make your drive a live file-system > B. Update files by overwriting them on your drive using MacFUSE. > C. Use both Windows and Mac with MacFUSE. > D. Use MacFUSE with any NTFS drive. (which means doing any of the > three above and all other approaches using MacFUSE) > > Although it is a nice and free alternative to pay-for driver/app, I > recommend that upon choosing an external hard drive to buy a FAT32 or > Mac-Based drive beforehand; otherwise, you can end up loosing a lot of > data using a beta freeware. I didn't think it would happen to me. But, > like many terminal diseases such as AIDs and Brain Cancer, you never > do. I'm not asking for the issue to be attended to, I have recovered > as much as I can. But I'm backing up my drive onto another drive and > reformatting it to FAT32 so I can use it now, because I'm certainly > not looking forward to loosing any more important files. > You may want to look into this, MacFUSE devs--random data deletion-- > maybe try to fix it. When you get a stable version up, or maybe Apple > finally buys into NTFS support, I'll delete the partition and go back > to NTFS. For now, farewell MacFUSE. > -Jake B. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
